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...number is a figure of considerable value, real as well as symbolic. The money, Beijing announced on Nov. 9, would go mainly to new infrastructure, homes, schools and clinics, especially in the country's poorer regions. Taken together with the recent alleviation of taxes plus changes to the rural-land law that will allow farmers to lease their land and free them to work elsewhere, the initiatives amount to what Jing Ulrich, the head of JP Morgan's China equities business, calls "a New Deal with Chinese characteristics...
...lets you take as many courses as you can fit in a semester, which means some students are able to finish an undergraduate degree in as little as two years. "Before WGU, I would have had to drive almost two hours to Richmond," says Sandy Newsome, a teacher in rural Virginia who is getting her master's in math education. "Learning this all from home seems so much smarter." Sure does...
...Thomas Lennon showed an excerpt from his 2006 Oscar winning documentary “The Blood of Yingzhou District” at the dinner. The film, co-produced by Ruby Yang of the Chang Ai Media project, depicts the ostracism faced by children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic in rural China. HCC intends to donate $1,000 of the proceeds from the evening to the communities Lennon worked with in the documentary, according to Geng. “Mr. Lennon’s work reminds us of a hopeful truth: in an increasingly globalized world, when we can be connected...
...farms in the Midwest and solar farms in the Southwest if they can be guaranteed that there will be a market for their products even if oil prices drop. • Construction of a new "smart" electric grid to deliver the power generated by wind, solar and geothermal plants in rural areas to the major population centers. This would be a down payment on the $400 billion over 10 years that Al Gore has estimated the new grid will ultimately cost - although, Gore says, the savings in energy efficiency could pay for the grid in three years. The new smart technology...
...cared for her. In the post-election e-mail, Soetoro-Ng writes of the sometimes conflicting emotions surrounding her grandmother's death and brother's success - and of the need to unplug for a while with her husband Konrad and their 4-year-old daughter Suhaila on Oahu's rural North Shore. She writes that she has been flooded with e-mail messages "of both congratulation and condolence .... There's a wide swatch of emotion cutting through me, sometimes swirling, never simple ... a briny mixture of elation, sadness, determination, regret, pride, hope, fatigue. You can imagine...